60 ber of other Jewish witnesses. A summary of the main grievances and proposals submitted by the Jewish bodies was subsequently presented in writing to the Royal Commission and is reproduced in Appendix V. DEVELOPMENTS IN 1937. 81. Soon af…

61 of a special Commissioner for the affected area of the Northern District, conditions speedily improved. 82. On the basis of the customary investigation, the Executive on April 15th applied for a half yearly labour immigration schedule of…

C2 Zvi in the south of Beisan, Irgun Moledeth on Taiba lands in the Emek, Kibbutz Banir at Juara near Megiddo, Maoz in the east of Beisan and Kibbutz Batelem on Nukeib lands on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. Preparations were like…

63 countries. Contacts were maintained and developed in Trans-Jordan, Egypt, the Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Persia, Turkey and India. On the occasion of the Coronation festivities in London a member of the staff of the Political Deparament was s…

64 88. A memorandum was likewise prepared by the Executive., in which the anomalous position of Palestine as a country devoid of any means of self-protection in its external trade relations was discussed and remedies were suggested. The mem…

65 salem, to uphold the position of the Jewish Vice-Mayor in accordance with the arrangement negotiated by the Jewish Agency with the Government in 1934. 92. Representations were made to secure a pardon for several Jewish prisoners, most of…

APPENDIX I. STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE JEWISH AGENCY OF THE PROPOSED RESTRICTION OF LAND SALES. The Executive of the Jewish Agency desires to make public its attitude with regard to the statement made by His Excellency the High Commissioner on…

70 ory by Article 6 of the Mandate," the enquiry to be "comprehensive in scope" and "include the whole land resources of Palestine". Paragraph 13 expressed the Mandatory Governments "definite intention to initiate an active policy of develo…

71 and the issue of the White Paper of 1930, the assumption was spread abroad that Jewish land settlement had caused an inordinate increase of landless Arabs, that assumption has subsequently been refuted by the careful inquiry carried out …

72 driven to despair by the imposition of new limitations on Jewish progress in Palestine at this grave juncture. It has moreover, emphasised with concern that the announcement of the land restriction had coincided with the scheme of fundam…

APPENDIX II. [T GOVERNING LETTER TO THE MEMORANDUM OF THE JEWISH AGENCY TO THE PERMANENT MANDATES. COMMISSION FOR 1935 HIS EXCELLENCY, THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR PALESTINE, Government Offices, Jerusalem, 30th April, 1936. JERUSALEM. Your Exc…

74t normal labour reserve. As in the meantime twice this number of Jewish workers have entered the country under the labour schedules, there has in effect been a clear relative decrease of unemployment. Economic prospects indicate the proba…

75 ing the admission of relatives should be relaxed by the restoration of the former practice. 4. In general, I would strongly deprecate any policy tending to restrict immigration on the ground that the total number of Jewish immigrants whi…

76 tion of those certificates or by some other suitable measure of large-scale registration, provide a solution for a problem which continues to cause grave anxiety to the Jewish community, and must give rise to serious difficulty for the A…

77 The Council therefore re-affirms its opposition to the establishment of a Legislative Council in the present stage of the development of Palestine, and is reluctantly compelled to express its categorical rejection of the scheme." This at…

78 sistance to Jewish settlement, and has not been preceded by any enquiry as to the areas available for Jewish settlement. In the opinion of the Jewish Agency the measure is unlikely to benefit the Arab agricultural population. Arab agricu…

79 mènt of the position of the local Arab agriculturists, will, it is hoped, form a precedent for a series of development and settlement schemes in other parts of Palestine. The main elements of such schemes should be the discovery and prop…

80 I would take the opportunity of reiterating the request repeatedly put forward by the Jewish Agency for the re-establishment of a special Trade and Industry Department, separate from the Customs Administration, to devote itself entirely …

81 advance may be expected in the current year; the Government having agreed to re-consider the possibility of basing the grant on its estimated expenditure on Arab education in the financial year in question and not, as heretofore, on its …

82 policy of increasing the number of Jewish employees in all these services, to the proportion of at least one-third of the total, so as to make the personnel of the services reflect in some measure the racial composition of the country's …